English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914

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Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English.Matthew Arnold, a#39;The Literary Influence of Academiesa#39; (1864), Essays in Criticism
(London: Macmillan, 1865), pp. ... 51 Herbert, Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic
Imagination in the Nineteenth 52 Century (University of Chicago Press, 1991), pp
. ... John Hartley, 3rd edn (New York: Routledge, 2012). ... as a form of a#39;
phonocentrisma#39;, which treated writing as a a#39;supplementa#39; to speech and ignored
the equal slipperiness of meaning in oral communication; see Of Grammatology,
trans.

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English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914

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Will Abberley

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Cambridge University Press - 2015-05-21

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